Why are foreign members being so problematic recently?

[Rockwolf66]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Interesting, you didn't hear the complaints from the Russians that we were being "Nazis" for not allowing long discussion written in CYRILLIC on imfdb. One of them actually argued with us, proclaiming that there have been 'no spammers writing in Cyrillic on the site' and that we're being unreasonable for wanting all the messages in a language most of us can actually understand.

I read the discussion. Now I don't speak russian but i know a Russian Hottie who can be talked into translating for me. Still I don't want to put apon the dear so I would prefer to just delete anything not in English. Yeah it's extreme but it works when you don't have alot of time to translate everything said.

Originally Posted by gunguy001

French Canadian strippers………hell ya!

females of course.

I have an aquaintance who made the mistake of marrying a stripper. He forgot the rule about fun to party with...not so fun to live with. Then again he got a psycho one.

Still if i get a shance I'd love to share a few with you guys IRL.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Spartan198

I have to disagree with this suggestion. If it was a rule in place when I registered, I wouldn't be here.

Neither would I, and again the question is do we even need anymore new people if they're only going to make a few minor edits.

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Also remember ..... pretty much only PersonOfInterest is the only one who keeps on bringing this up. Apparently he thinks that we are some sort of leviathan website with tons of paid staff with the manhours to institute draconian rules and punishments. Be aware of where the 'idea' comes from

It's my solution to your problem. I wouldn't have even said anything if you hadn't brought it up. You came to the forums with a complaint, I answered with the best solution I could think of. I only champion this cause in threads you post.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Block the trolls out before they can get in and you'll reduce your workload. And this website already bans people, that's not my suggestion. My idea would probably decrease the number of bans. That's not draconian at all, considering the admins already have (and wield) the power to ban.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Rockwolf66

I have an aquaintance who made the mistake of marrying a stripper. He forgot the rule about fun to party with...not so fun to live with. Then again he got a psycho one.

One of my friends was in a relationship with a girl who did porn behind his back. She was Russian.

[Markost]

Block them. And if they insist, release the banhammer.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Markost

Block them. And if they insist, release the banhammer.

Blocking them is pretty much the same thing as banning them. We have the choice of how long a Block is in place. Usually an INFINITE block is considered a permanent BAN. Sometimes members who are douchebags get a temporary ban. It's funny, SOME of them learn their lesson, behave and do well, some come back after a temporary as bad or WORSE. Those guys get the permanent Banhammer rather quickly.

It's the guys who, out of the blue, create an account and then create havoc on purpose who are hard to filter out.

Which (a real world example) is why terrorism is hard to stop when we have free flow of travel between countries. We can't stop EVERYONE from traveling EVER, but that certainly would eliminate any attacks from foreign travelers to any country. But it's not a solution that is tenable.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Markost

Block them. And if they insist, release the banhammer.

That's pretty much what he did about her.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Blocking them is pretty much the same thing as banning them. We have the choice of how long a Block is in place. Usually an INFINITE block is considered a permanent BAN. Sometimes members who are douchebags get a temporary ban. It's funny, SOME of them learn their lesson, behave and do well, some come back after a temporary as bad or WORSE. Those guys get the permanent Banhammer rather quickly.

It's the guys who, out of the blue, create an account and then create havoc on purpose who are hard to filter out.

Which (a real world example) is why terrorism is hard to stop when we have free flow of travel between countries. We can't stop EVERYONE from traveling EVER, but that certainly would eliminate any attacks from foreign travelers to any country. But it's not a solution that is tenable.

Running a website and running a country are not all on par with each other.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

It's my solution to your problem. I wouldn't have even said anything if you hadn't brought it up. You came to the forums with a complaint, I answered with the best solution I could think of. I only champion this cause in threads you post.

And it's a impractical THEN as it is NOW. In the future, FIGHT the urge to respond to my rants.

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Sure. Except it's not an OUNCE of prevention. It's three hundred TONS of "prevention" versus a Pound of "Cure". It's hundreds and hundreds of extra MANHOURS. A point which you doggedly refuse to see.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Except it's not an OUNCE of prevention. It's three hundred TONS of "prevention" versus a Pound of "Cure". It's hundreds and hundreds of extra MANHOURS. A point which you doggedly refuse to see.

We're in the future now. Get somebody to figure out a way to automate the filtering process.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

Running a website and running a country are not all on par with each other.

You have a gift to see things, not as metaphors, like most of us, but as really ridiculously simplistic black & white views of the world.

Reminds me of the guy who says to a corporate CEO, "if you don't want to have to fire employees who steal company property, then simply don't hire people who would do such a thing!" Wooooooo! Amazing that the rest of humanity never thought of such a thing!